In addition to relocating the temperature/humidity sensor, I’ve enclosed the solar sensor in a translucent cover from a CD spindle stack. This has eliminated sensor saturation (in effect, sunglasses for the sensor) and I can now calibrate the sensor for 100% at peak sun (around 1:30 PM these days).

Well, at around 8:00 AM Saturday, 12 April we got hit with a major thunderstorm – lightning, hail, wind, much rain. At which time my station went dead. I didn’t discover this until later in the day. Turns out the DS9097U RS232 interface connector got zapped by a lightning induced surge. This gave me a […]

temperature & humidity in modified bird feeder – has to be replaced. Not enough ventilation (catches morning sun in winter) anemometer & wind vane rain gauge and solar sensor (solar sensor saturates, needs mod.)

Well, after too many weeks my weather stations is up and running in its Version 1 configuration. Had to learn to program in Java (with much needed assistance from my son Christopher) and it was great fun to be totally immersed in an old-fashioned hardware-software engineering project. It’s now time to get back to my […]